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Apr. 2, 2021
The incidence of COVID-19 in Israel continues to decline despite Israelis’ accelerated return to their pre-pandemic routine. The doomsters probably have one more week. If there’s no concrete rise in daily new infections and positive tests despite the large family gatherings of Passover, we ll be able to say with some certainty that the disease has been contained thanks to the impressive efficiency of the vaccination project.
The steep fall of the infection rate has triggered a spat between the education and health ministries, with the former demanding, rightly, for schools to resume full activity next week. The Health Ministry wants to go on with the cautionary measure of some classes being at school physically for only half the week.